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“Too many people think only about getting results. The key to success, however, is to focus on the specific task at hand and not to worry about results.”
What do you think this piece of advice means, and do you think that it is, on the whole, worth following? Support your views with reasons and/or examples drawn from your own experience, observations, or reading.
The advice is basically suggesting that if we focus our attentions on details and not worry about the end result, the final product would be better than if we proceeded the other way around. Perhaps there are some merits to the point. Since it will help us avoid looking at the daunting task at hand. Other than that, the advice should be followed with cautious.
The advice may sound plausible at first, but it is quite irrational once you think about it. The advice to completely immerse ourselves into detailed construction without referencing to the blue print of what we are building is virtually impossible. The reason is quite simple. You can't build something if you don't know what you are building. Imaging a group of people assigned with the task to build a church but without the knowledge of what they are building. As a result, they can be performing random tasks and no matter how diligent and detailed they worked, it is hard to image that they can build anything that was set out to build - a church. If they did build a church, you then must thank God for his direction to enlighten these men.
To ensure good result, a balanced approach should be taken. Having a clear goal and having the details necessary to achieve the goal are vital to the success of the implementation. For instance, a project involving building a road between two cities - not only the source city and destination city must be defined but also the type of road, number of worker required, expected start date, material needed, construction guideline, inspection measures, daily tasks, etc., must also be defined. Without a goal of knowing where to build to or where to start, investment can be wasted; without details on daily tasks, milestones, testing plans, maintenance guide, budget allocation, daily supervising, etc., project can be delayed or over invested.
In sum, focusing on detail has its merits but purposely avoiding the question - "what are we building or what is our goal" is impractical. On the whole, both goal setting and detail focusing need to be account for when building a product. |
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